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TONIGHT’S PROGRAMME. 2YA, Wellington. 570 k.c. When Parliament is being broadcast, this programme will be transmitted by 2YC. Usual hours o£ Parliament: 2.30 to 5.30, and 7.30 to 10.30 p.m. 5.0: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner music. 6.55: Weather. 7.0: Local news. 7.15: “Britain Speaks.” 7.28: Time signals. 7.29: Talk, W. J. Brownlie, Wairoa Young Farmers’ Club: “Young Farmers' Club Activities and Ideals.” 7.54: Dorothy Helmrich (mezzo-soprano). 8.2: Concert by the N.B.S. String Orchestra (conductor, Maurice Clare); soloists, W. Roy Hill (tenor) and Winifred Bourke (pianist). 8.57: Weather reports and station notices. 9.0: N.B.S. newsreel. 9.15: 8.8. C. news commentary by Vernon Bartlett, M.P. 9.25: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: News, followed by meditation music. 11.30: Close down.
2YC, Wellington. 840 k.c. 5.0 p.m.: Tunes for the tea-table. 6.0: Musical menu. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Programme of recorded novelties. 8.30: Hits for musical comedy. 9.0: A humorous interlude. 9.15: Kings of the keyboard.. 9.30: Popular potpourri. 10.0-10.25: Signal preparation for Air Force. 10.30: Close down. 2YD, Wellington. 990 k.c. 7.0 p.m.: Ragtime marches on. 7.35: “A Gentleman Rider.” 7.47: Musical melange. 8.10: “Marie Antoinette.” 8.35: Soft lights and sweet music. 8.50: “The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s.” 9.2: The Kingsmen. 9.15: Ports of Call: Australia. 9.45: Fanfare. 10.0: Close down. IYA, Auckland. 650 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner music. 6.55: Weather. 7.0: Local news service. 7.10: Talk by the Gardening Expert. 7.30: Chorus and orchestra. 7.40: “One Good Deed a Day.” 7.53: The Norsemen Male Quartet. 7.59: George Elliott (guitar). 8.5: “Evergreens of Jazz.” 8.18: Lillie Palmer (vocal). 8.24: “The First Great Churchill." 8.48: The Minstrel Singers. 8.57: Weather reports and station notices. 9.0: N.B.S. newsreel. 9.15: 8.8. C. news commentary by Vernon Bartlett, M. 9.25: Old-timers’ Orchestra. 9.30: Dance music. 11.0: News, followed by meditation music. 11.30: Close down. 3YA, Christchurch. 720 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner music. 6.55: Weather. 7.0: Local news. 7.10: Talk, “Printing Yesterday and Today,” by J. H. E .Schroder. 7.15: Book review by J. H. E. Schroder. 7.30: London Palladium Orchestra. 7.39: “Dad and Dave.” 7.51: From the studio: The Harmony Trio. 8.17: “A Gentleman Rider,’ ’by Nat Gould. 8.30: A studio recital by Cecily Audibert (soprano). 8.42: “The Buccaneers of the Pirate Ship Vulture.” 8.57: Weather reports and station notices. 9.0: N. newsreel. 9.15: 8.8. C. news commentary by Vernon Bartlett, M.P. 9.25: Musical comedy memories. 10.0: Larry Clinton and his orchestra. 11.0: News, followed by meditation music. 11.30: Close down. 4YA, Dunedin. 790 k.c.
5.0: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner music. 6.55: Weather. 7.0: Local news. 7.15: A recorded talk by Professor Arnold Wall: “Beginnings.” 7.30: “An Evening with Liszt.” 7.40: "Fashions Ancient and Modern: Medicine.” 8.0: Final Community Sing of the 1940 season (relayed from the Town Hall), interrupted for the following fixed items:— 1|.57: Dominion and district weather reports and station notices. 9.0: N.B.S. newsreel: A digest of the day’s news. 9.15: 8.8. C. News Commentary, by Vernon Bartlett, M.P. 11.0: News and meditation music. 11.30: Close Empire Broadcasts. News and news commentaries often followed by topical talks, will be broadcast from Daventry transmitters as specified in the following list. (Those marked with one asterisk will be relayed by the principal stations of the National Broadcasting Service at the time of transmission, and those with two asterisks will be recorded and rebroadcast at the time stated after the asterisks.) The list is correct to New Zealand Summer Time. 1.00 am. GSV (17.81 mc/s) 4.00 a.m. GSB (9.51 mc/s) 6.00 am. GSI (15.26 mc/s) * and •• 7 a.m. 8.45 a.m. GSI (15.26 mc/s) * 11.00 a.m. GSF (15.14 mc/s) 1.00 p.m. GSF (15.14 mc/s) *♦ 1.15 p.m. 1.45 p.m. GSD (11.75 mc/s) 3.30 p.m. GSC (9.58 mc/s) 4.30 p.m. GSC (9.58 mc/s) 6.15 p.m. GSE (11.86 mc/s) » 8.30 p m. GSE (11.36 mc/s) •* 9 p.m. 9.45 p.m. GSE (11.86 mc/s) 11.00 p.m. GSV (17.81 mc/s) * The Pacific transmission now extends from 6.10 p.m. to 10.0 p.m. and will be receivable on the following transmitters: GSB (31.55 m., 9.51 mc/s) till 8.45 p.m. ,GSE (25.59 m„ 11.86 mc/s), GSD (25.53 m„ 11.75 mc/s), GSF (19.82 m., 15.14 mc/s), from 8.45 p.m., GSI (19.66 m., 15.26 mc/s), and GSV (16.84 m„ 17.81 mc/s) from 8.30 p.m. Items of interest in today’s programme are: “Calling Australia,” at 8.15 p.m.; News Commentary by Vernon Bartlett, at 8.30 p.m.; and “Matters of Moment,” at 9 p.m. I
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 November 1940, Page 2
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